Benchmark: removeChild (first/last) vs removeElementChild (first/last) !!!

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="container"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var node = document.getElementById('container');

for(var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) node.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));

Tests:

removeChild ( firstChild )
var node = document.getElementById('container'); let item; while(item = node.firstChild) node.removeChild(item)
removeChild ( lastChild )
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.lastChild)
removeChild ( firstElementChild )
var node = document.getElementById('container'); let item; while(item = node.firstElementChild) node.removeChild(item)
removeChild ( lastElementChild )
var node = document.getElementById('container'); while(node.firstElementChild) node.removeChild(node.lastElementChild)

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
removeChild ( firstChild )
removeChild ( lastChild )
removeChild ( firstElementChild )
removeChild ( lastElementChild )

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 7 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Goanna/6.7 Firefox/128.0 PaleMoon/33.8.1.1

Browser/OS: Pale Moon (Firefox Variant) 33 on Linux

Test name	Executions per second
removeChild ( firstChild )	1205736.5 Ops/sec
removeChild ( lastChild )	1210546.5 Ops/sec
removeChild ( firstElementChild )	1221936.2 Ops/sec
removeChild ( lastElementChild )	1212541.9 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

removeChild (first/last) vs removeElementChild (first/last) !!! (version: 1)